Fugitive arrested in sex slaying
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German police arrested a fugitive wanted in the sex slaying of a British college student in Italy, detaining an African man whose fingerprints had been found at the crime scene.
Police arrested Rudy Hermann Guede, 20, in the western German city of Mainz. Guede, a native of Ivory Coast, was stopped for riding a Frankfurt-bound train without a ticket, investigators said.
Guede was sought in the sexual assault and fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in the house she shared with University of Washington student Amanda Marie Knox in Perugia. Knox and her Italian boyfriend remain jailed in connection with the Nov. 2 slaying. Both have denied wrongdoing.
Diya “Patrick” Lumumba, 38, a Congolese man who owns a pub in Perugia, was released for lack of evidence. Officials said Knox had accused him of committing the crime.
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